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Town Dump

Town Dump might just be the single most obscure board game I've featured on this blog thus far, and that includes "Across The Board: A Horse Racing Game" , so that says something. Can I make an admission? I'm a sucker for dumpster diving. Growing up, my best friend's mom managed a series of apartment complexes, and because of that, he and I had the absolute run of the mill of the places, getting into unused apartments to film early short films and, of course, going dumpster diving. It was just a fantastically good time, and even in 2014 when I lived in Santa Cruz in a complex populated mostly by college students, I dumpster dove all the time, because the thing about college kids is they throw a lot of things away when they move home after college ends, and so you find a lot of excellent stuff for zero dollars. Once, my friend and I discovered a virtually new acoustic guitar in one of the dumpsters at his apartment complex, and you wouldn't believe some of the ...